beat out

verb

beat out; beaten out or beat out; beating out; beats out

transitive verb

1

: to make or perform by or as if by beating

2

: to mark or accompany by beating

3

: to turn (a routine ground ball or a bunt) into a hit in baseball by fast running to first base

Examples of beat out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Basically, both sides shun her and hate her, and she’s sort of beaten out of the idea of creating art at all. —Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026

Rogen beat out the likes of Nobody Wants This’ Adam Brody, A Man on the Inside’s Ted Danson and Only Murders in the Building’s Martin Short (who won the award last year). —Peter White, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2026

Kelley, a Democrat who has been sheriff since 2014, beat out Reilly in the past two elections. —Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026

In the end, though, it was beaten out by a rival, Nexstar, which, in August, announced a deal to acquire Tegna for around six billion dollars. —Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for beat out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout